The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
PLATOBeauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
More Plato Quotes
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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